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Weapons, how do they find there way into the hands of our children. In the last two academic years there were one hundred and five cases of school associated violent deaths. These cases ranged from homicides to suicides, eighty- five of these cases were homicides and twenty were suicides(www.nscu.edu). These events occurred in elementary and secondary schools and firearms were used in seventy- five percent of the incidents(www.nscu.edu). Children feel that they have to bring weapons to school for protection, because they fear being a victim of school violence. Today’s society have seen the high profile cases across the media, such as Columbine where over ten students and a teacher were gun downed by other students. These are the types of guns that found there way into the hands of those students: Tec DC nine, sawed off- double barrel shotgun, and 9 mil meter semiautomatic riffle.

Preventing school violence is a problem that the entire nation has to solve as a whole. The Federal Buearu Investigation conducted a report on what to look for in a potential shooter. The profiling report is said to help school officials and guidance counselors in preventing school violence before it strikes. These are some of the characteristics to look for:

If a child has tantrums and angry outburst; resorts to cursing or abusive language; has serious

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disciplinary problems at school and in the community; has witnessed or been a victim of abuse or neglect in the home; tends to blame others for difficulties and problems one causes oneself; prefers reading materials dealing with violent themes, rituals and abuse, reflects anger and dark side of life in school essays or writing projects, and is often depressed (www.cnn.com). Those are some of many characteristics of spotting a potential shooter. It has been said that this report may cause some stereotyping of students, by officials, because this is not the case with every student. Bruce Hunter, a lobbyist who represents school superintendents for the American Association of School Administrators, said that profiling is not the answer to school violence(www.cnn.com). Hunter believes that profiling can be very biased and cause some officials to act without cause, making kids potential criminals (www.cnn.com).

Americans believe that tighter security and tighter justice system would control the problems that plague our schools. Society feels that youth that commit adult crimes should be tried as adults. Many Americans are angry after the Jonesboro shooting where the two shooters were ages eleven and thirteen, could not be tried as adults and would only do time until the age of twenty-one. The juvenile justice system should be the same nation wide instead of varying state by state. If one commits a crime, one should be punished equally. We need more resource officers in the school system and more money needs to spent on metal detectors and school uniforms. The legislature not only profiles victims, but they profile its school districts, meaning that they think these things are only needed in the urban areas and that is not true. School violence knows no district by its size. School violence does not pick and choose where it will hit next, it is like a hurricane it changes its path in split seconds. If there is a price to pay for committing a crime, there should be a price to pay for preventing crimes from happening in our

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school systems. The need for tighter gun control in the United States is a must as well. Congress might have created and passed the “gun-free school zones,” in the early nineties, but that did not make gun control tighter. If one is going to own a gun they should be required to buy a certain type of storage case, such as on made of cast iron, that would be difficult for children to gain access to. Congress needs to pass a law that the gun owner should be punished as well as the child, if the gun is used by a child in a crime.

Gangs are three or more persons who share a common identity, adopt or use signs and symbols (Sanders, 1994, p. 6). The key is that they engage in criminal activity, ranging from murder to selling drugs (Sanders, 1994,p. 6). Gangs aren’t something new in americas society, they have been in existence for decades, but in the last ten years they have become dramatically more developed and more violent. Americas society have realized that what they use to call peer groups, are now called gangs and they are committing more crimes than ever, especially with the rise of drugs in this nation. The presence of gangs date back as far as the sixty’s, when fifty Chicago street gangs united into a single organization called the Black P- Stone Nation, and other gangs followed to form the Black Gangster Disciple Nation, which are still in existence today (Sanders, 1994, p. 34). The main reason these two nations formed, was the Chicago drug trade (Sanders, 1994, p. 34). From there these gangs became bitter rivals. The two most common gangs in today’s society are the Bloods and the Crips, which are in high population in the state of California, but have managed to migrated throughout the country. Today these gangs are known to take new recruits through an initiation process, which have went from getting beat up in the old days, to serious crimes like murdering someone, like a cop.

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Each nation has it’s own characteristics, which separates them from the other, this began in the prison system in the eighties. Gangs target no certain race, there are many gangs across the nation ranging from Hispanic Gangs, to Black Gangs, to White Gangs. Hispanic gangs tend to glorify the gang, black gangs tend to glorify the gang or

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